Space Debris and Nuclear Power Sources

Every year the
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) invites Member States to submit reports on national research on space debris, safety of space objects with nuclear power sources on board and problems of their collisions with space debris. The information received is disseminated as a UN document in all official languages.

Click
here for an index of online documents relating to space debris, nuclear power sources in space and other related subjects. This index also includes notifications by member States of space debris discovered within their territories. The
Technical Report on Space Debris adopted by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is available as a pdf file for
download.

In 2007, the
Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (
ST/SPACE/49 ), were endorsed by the General Assembly and were the result of a multi-year discussion on the issue within COPUOS.